Greek Archaeology Midterm 1 Images

argos panoply

first bronze armor in 400 years on mainland, hero cults to elevate their dead

bull leaping fresco

from Minoan palace of Knossos, unsure of significance

cecrops

half man half snake that was first king of Athens

cup of Nestor

datable to 720 BCE, many first bits of greek writing were poems, found in ischia, reference to the Iliad

Cyrene

631 BCE, Greek city in Libya, famous for silphium, one of the most populous Greek cities

dimini

walled settlement and organized township, also pottery style (no wheel) and burnished

dipylon

late geometric I pottery style where every inch is covered in some sort of design

early cycladic frying pan

popularly viewed as wedding gift, images of boats

early cycladic figurine

marble, range in size, in tombs, lack of context

franchthi cave

near Argos visited by hunter gatherers as far back as Paleolithic, good hunting spots and protection, obsidian and wild animal bones including fish

griffin warrior tomb

preserved tomb with lots of goods, metal over ceramics for elites, seemed to prominent

heinrich Schliemann

German businessman that wanted to find places mentioned in homer

house of tiles, lerna

early Bronze Age rise of chieftains and social stratification, first use of tiles anywhere in Greece that is then lostpo

kamares ware

Minoan pottery with dark background and lighter motifs and inspo from flora and fauna

Knossos

lefkandi

lions gate

medinet habu

melian obsidian

Minoan marine style

minyan ware

Mycenae

Mycenaean terracotta figurines

phaistos disc

pylos

pylos combat agate

sesklo

submycenaean pottery

tarzan fresco

tell el dab’a

tiryns 

treasury of Atreus

vapheio cup